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THE ARREST AND MURDER OF COMRADES
PENG PAI, YANG YIN, YAN CHANGYI
AND XING SHIZHEN

September 14, 1929

The imperialists and the Kuomintang are always collaborating to
suppress the masses of workers and peasants and massacre revolu-
tionary leaders. Particularly in the sprawling, foreign-dominated
metropolis of Shanghai, tens of thousands of lives have been crushed
under the iron heel of the imperialist gangsters and Kuomintang
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warlords since the Incident of April 12, 1927. At this very moment,
thousands of workers, peasants and revolutionary fighters are serving
life sentences in the prison in the foreign concessions, Caohejing Prison,
the Public Security Bureau and the garrison headquarters.
With the increasing danger of world war, the continuing war
between the warlords and the growing mass struggles, the imperialists
and the Kuomintang have intensified their collaboration and are com-
mitting greater barbarities against the revolutionary masses and the
Chinese Communist Party, their revolutionary vanguard. Peng, Yang
and the other comrades murdered in a plot hatched jointly by the
imperialists and the Kuomintang were the victims of one such barbarous
attack.
Comrades Peng Pai, Yang Yin, Yan Changyi and Xing Shizhen
were arrested around 4:00 p.m. on August 24, 1929. As though
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dealing with some formidable enemy, armed policemen belonging to
the imperialist forces and Chinese detectives from the Public Security
Bureau drove several red armoured vehicles to the home of the traitors
Bai Xin and his wife in the western part of Shanghai. After posting
their men inside and outside the lane, they climbed the steps and made

An article published in Red Flag Daily, organ of the Central Committee of the
Chinese Communist Party, August 30, 1930.
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